As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

The media spreading it 🤢

The right's reaction to this death is one of the most blood-curdling events I've witnessed in my lifetime.

I saw Goody Proctor with the devil!

Fuck you. Kill me.

What, a calf was too on the nose?

Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or fucking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man, and give some back. ~ Al Swearengen, Deadwood

Don't tread on me! Tread on those guys over there.

The news/opinion cycle right now still feels very surreal to me. I’m gay, why am I expected to perform grief for someone who loudly disapproved of my existence, my marriage, and everything else about me?

It's like speed-running the reaction to 9/11 except for one bigot whose image and memory we're supposed to prostrate ourselves before forever.

it’s like they think we won’t remember who went full fash

They're not going after people for being disrespectful to his memory. They're going after people for not genuflecting before his corpse.

Mainstream pop culture's about to get so shitty.

JD VANCE: We will hunt the liberal down in the filthy hovels they occupy like so many vermin. There will be no peace until the leftist stain is wiped from the soul of this world! CHUCK SCHUMER: We are eager to continue reaching across the aisle to compromise with our honorable colleagues.

Public school security procedures can be difficult to navigate these days if you've never visited anyone in prison.

I'm not afraid of being murdered by a Republican. I'd rather be dead than live in their vision of the country anyway.

Media outlets are inviting the nastiest commentators on the extreme right to come on the air and claim to be victims of unprecedented censorship and oppression. Meanwhile, you will lose your job if you accurately quote the deceased.

Washington Post-Racial

Reposting this again because it's the only thing that's made me feel sane all week.

Only thing I've seen that made me want to go to church in 32 years.

THIS. THIS IS IT.

I came of political age being called a traitor, a terrorist-sympathizer. My entire adult life, the message has been that to disagree with Republicans is to betray my country. Their supporters have staged an insurrection, plotted to kidnap a Democratic governor. Murdered protestors and a legislator.

You said "Let's help people!" in a shrill tone whereas I said "Let's hurt people" calmly and with measured grace.

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Maybe there's an appropriate time to discuss disproportionate reactions to political violence against people not responsible for said violence, but not on September 11.

This. Looking through the “birthday book” has stoked a rage and sadness that I was not prepared for, even though I had imagined how awful the content would be.

It's true that talking about gender is legal and executive orders are not laws. It is also true that 3 people are out of jobs today based on a right wing sting operation that objected to teachings "against the president's laws." I can't blame people for saying the law doesn't matter anymore.

I'm trying to research if there are any mental health implications for living in a place you hate surrounded by people you can't stand run by people who want you dead.

There are fewer consequences for guns in school than there are for "gender" in school.

If a college student writes "Is Israel wrong?" into a diary, federal agents will show up at their door within 24 hours. Meanwhile, if a college student encounters the word "gender" in a class, they can have the teacher, the department head, and the college dean dismissed within 48 hours.

Supreme Court releases 6-3 decision stating, "It doesn't even look like his signature."

I'm not worried about Trump refusing to leave office or elections being suspended. Those are irrational fears in a country where insurrectionists can't run for president and official presidential acts are prosecutable under the rule of law.

I wouldn't worry about "not blowing." Things are gonna blow for a long time.

Trash country run by absolute freaks

"Bari Weiss in conversation with Amy Coney Barrett" is something that exists to punish me personally.

Whatever else you can say about the Secretary of HEALTH, he looks great and sounds amazing.

Bari Weiss is the Elizabeth Holmes of Megan McArdles.

Bari Weiss is the Elizabeth Holmes of Megan McArdles.

Welcome to Texas. The Ten Commandments are posted every twenty feet but you have to show three forms of ID to buy avocados at $8 a piece.

In 1845, the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association petitioned for the first government investigation of working conditions in US history.

Don't read the Times. Read my thread instead. bsky.app/profile/bear...

I don't know what the deal with the president is, but I hope he's receiving the best medical treatments RFKjr can think of.

J.B. Pritzker is 100% right. Please listen to him, pay attention, and join us in speaking out against authoritarianism and to protect free and fair elections.

The Micheal Avenatti of Terry McAuliffes

Why, did he hear there were trans people in them?

Earlier today I was thinking about how seeing Jaws in IMAX would fix me. I was right.